How can organisations adopt fit-for-purpose cultures?
Organisations should follow a four-stage model for creating functional cultures that includes analysing different environmental changes, says a study co-authored at Cambridge Judge. Dr Yeun Joon Kim The consequences of organisational culture have been extensively studied in management journals, but…
Businesses must back up their sustainability promises says new handbook
Businesses need to back up their 'exciting' narratives on sustainability with clear implementation, says a new Handbook on the Business of Sustainability co-authored by faculty and others at Cambridge Judge Business School. Businesses often have "exciting" narratives about sustainability but…
Reuters: Hope for achieving the SDGs lies in a new generation about to take over the boardroom
Arlo Brady, CEO of Freuds and PhD alumnus of Cambridge Judge Business School (PhD 2000), writes about the concept of ethical corporation and how it has changed over the years. “In the early 2000s, the focus was on the business…
New board role for Cambridge EMBA alumna
Executive MBA (EMBA) alumna Dr Bola Grace reflects on her appointment to the board of Levin Sources, in the minerals sector. She explains how her education and career so far have led her to the role, offering advice to other…
Making a difference
The pandemic has created greater empathy and understanding among business leaders to tackle society's big challenges, Robin L. Washington says in the latest edition of the CJBS Perspectives interview series on leadership. The global pandemic has created greater empathy and…
Cambridge Network: Study examines cultural fit in big pharma integration
Piyush Durani, an Executive MBA graduate of Cambridge Judge (EMBA 2018), measures cultural fit in the $74 billion merger of Bristol-Myers Squibb and Celgene. “As I progressed through my EMBA programme in 2018-2019, the BMS acquisition of Celgene was announced…
Big pharma
Piyush Durani, an Executive MBA graduate of Cambridge Judge (EMBA 2018), measures cultural fit in the $74 billion merger of Bristol-Myers Squibb and Celgene. Piyush Durani The well-known business expression "culture eats strategy for breakfast" is particularly apt for mergers…
Medium: How to preserve culture during remote work?
Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Diageo Professor in Organisation Studies at Cambridge Judge Business School, comments on organisational culture in Portuguese outlet Medium. Culture is “a kind of close coupling between what we do, how we do things and what it means to…
Cong Luan: The latest research on the “night go” of multinational corporations
A study on corporate bribery co-authored by Raghavendra Rau, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School, featured in Vietnamese newspaper. The study investigated around 200 outstanding bribes in 60 countries from 1975 to 2015 and…
MIT Sloan Management Review: Three ways managers can preserve culture during remote work
Culture is a “sort of tight coupling between what we do, how we do things, and what this means to us,” said Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Diageo Professor in Organisation Studies at Cambridge Judge Business School. She says there are ways to…